Railway-rail brace



Md! 25 1924. Tl,487,877

- J. G. MUELLER RAILWAY RAIL BRACE Filed March 22 1923 Patented Mar. 25, 1924.

UNMEQ stares JOHN G. MUELLER, 0F DAYTON, OHIO.

RAILWAY-RAIL BRAGE.

Application filed March 22, 1923. Serial No. 626,967.

To ail whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. MUELLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rail Braces, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in railway rail braces.

The general object of the invention is to provide outer braces which engage the ball of the rail, inner braces which clamp the upper surface of the rail base, and filler blocks which form seats for the rail base and are urged and held against the rail base by the inner braces, all in essentially the manner hereinafter stated.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a partial sectional view and elevation of my improved rail brace and of a rail;

Fig. 2 is alike view of a modified form.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates a conventional railway rail having a web 2, a tread 3 and a ball 4. The general purpose in view is to clamp and sustain such a rail in directions opposing the direction of movement the rail tends to have by reason of the pressures and strains exerted by the rolling cars passing over it.

The numeral 5 designates the outer braces which comprise upper portions that engage or bear forcibly against the rail near the ball 4: and under the tread, as also against the adjacent portion of the web 2. The points of contact of the outer braces with these parts of the rail are designated 6 and 7.

The lower portions of the braces 5 are turned so as to extend toward the center of the rail, as indicated at 8, for a purpose presently to appear.

The numeral 9 designates the inner braces which are slot-ted to receive the outer braces and which have clamping projections 9 adapted to bear down forcibly upon the upper face of the rail tread, and have also pressure projections 9" which bear against the filler blocks presently to be described. These inner braces also have portions 9 which constitute pressure portions or blocks against which the washers 1O bear when urged by the nuts 11 on the tie rod or bolt 12. This tie rod extends through the outer and inner braces, as also through the filler blocks and acts to hold the several braces and parts firmly against the rail when the nuts are screwed up.

The numeral 13 designates the two filler blocks which have portions 1 1 that constitute seats proper for the rail base and ledges 15 which bear against the edges of the rail base. The filler blocks also have extensions 16 with which contact the lower portions 8 of the outer braces 5. In this way both the inner braces 9 and the outer braces 5 press against and hold the filler blocks.

In the foregoing description I have been referring to the preferred form shown in Fig. 1. I will now refer to the modified form shown in Fig. 2. In this form the pressure blocks 9 correspond to the pressure block portion 9 of the inner braces shown in Fig. 1. But the remainder of the inner brace is omitted. And in this form also the lower portions of the outer braces 5 are extended further down than in the form shown in Fig. 1, so that the extreme lower portions 17 come together and loosely interlock by means of a groove 18 in one and rib 19 on the other.

In this form also the lower portions of the outer braces contact with the lower portions of the modified filler blocks 13 at the points 20. But the filler blocks constitute a chair or seat 14: just as in the other form and have the ledges 15.

It will now be seen that when the nuts 11 are screwed against the washers 10 in this modified form the pressure blocks are urged against the outer braces, just as the filler block portions 9 of the inner braces in Fig. 1 are urged against the outer braces. Also that in the modified form the outer braces contact directly instead of indirectly with the upper portion of the filler blocks 13*. By these means the braces and filler blocks are firmly braced and held against the rail to sustain it.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a railway rail brace, the combination with a pair of outer braces whose upper ends contact with the rail and whose lower portions form extensions, and filler blocks whose upper portions form chairs or supports for the rail base and which have extensions, said extensions of the outer braces and filler blocks being in contact, of a tie bolt, and inner braces constituting clamping devices wherethrough the tie bolt passes by which the outer braces are urged against the filler blocks.

2. In a railway rail brace, the combination with a pair of outer braces, a pair of inner braces through which the outer braces extend, and a filler block in two parts, of a tie rod extending through both pairs of braces and the filler blocks and having adjusting nuts adapted to act against the inner braces to adjust them and the other braces, as also the blocks.

3. In a railway rail brace, the combination with a pair of outer braces whose upper ends incline upward and inward and contact with the rail and whose lower ends incline downward and inward, inner braces forming pressure portions, upper projections to contact with the rail base and lower projections, and filler blocks whose upper portions form supports for the rail base and whose lower portions form extensions which contact with the lower portions of the outer braces, of a tie bolt and clamping devices car *ied thereby for acting against the pressure portions of the inner braces, whereby all of the parts are bound together.

4:. In a railway rail brace, the combination with outer braces, inner braces having openings through which the outer braces pass and filler blocks against which the outer and inner braces contact, of a tie bolt and clamping devices carried thereby and adapted to force the inner braces against the outer braces and the filler blocks.

In testimony whereof, I afi ix my signature.

JOHN G. MUELLER, 

